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Accounting standards

The rules a company follows when preparing financial statements.

Global Investment Performance Standards (GIPS)

A set of standards which investors use to present their investment results.

Compound interest

Understand what compound interest means and how it's calculated

Yield

Income from an investment as a percentage of its current price.

Over-The-Counter (OTC)

A security that is sold outside of an exchange.

NASDAQ

A US stock exchange specialising in the shares of technology companies.

Forward pricing

Mutual funds are traded on a forward pricing basis, meaning the price you see will be different to the price you may trade at.

Costs and Charges

The money you pay when investing.

Accrued interest

The interest earned on a gilt since the last dividend date. When buying a gilt, the buyer pays the accrued interest at the time of a transaction to the seller in addition to the clean price of the gilt

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